About the book: year / The so-called Murphy's Law was first formulated and used at Edwards Air Force Base in 1949. This law is named after its creator - Captain Edward Murphy, who was an engineer on the US Air Force MX981 project at the time. The goal of the project was to determine the maximum overload that the human body can withstand. One fine day, the captain discovered a critical mistake made by one of the technicians when installing experimental equipment, and said to him a phrase that became the prototype of Murphy’s law - “If something can be done wrong, this person will do it!" The project manager, who was compiling a list of various rules and laws, added this statement to his list and entitled it "Murphy's Law." Of course, this rule was already in the air, but on that historic day it finally appeared on paper and received a name. Over time, the list of “laws” was replenished with new gems from army technical specialists, nevertheless remaining unknown to almost no one except themselves. However, based on the results of the successful completion of the MX981 project, military doctor John Stapp, who actually played the role of a guinea pig in this experiment, spoke at one of the press conferences that their team managed to avoid many accidents and troubles precisely thanks to good knowledge of Murphy's laws. Stapp shared a list of these laws with numerous journalists and representatives of contracting companies. And after some time, Murphy’s laws became known to the whole world. Immediately after this, more and more “Murphy’s laws” began to appear, no longer having anything to do with Captain Murphy himself, or with Air Force projects, or even with technology in general. The authors of many of these “laws” are very famous individuals who held high positions. The authors of others remained unknown. Some of these laws were given fictitious, meaningless names.